ORftfctON SCOOTc
JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
UMIOX. ORKCJOX.
INFLUENCE OF DEBT.
It Dull the KiIro of llunlmntlry nml Mnkc
It Victim Itimk Scoundrels.
Debt Is nn inexhaustible fountain
of dishonesty. The debtor learns
the "jfinninp tricks, delays, conceal
ments and frauds, by which dishonest
servants evade or cheat their master.
Ho is tempted to mako ambiguous
statements; pledges, with secret pas
sages of escape; contracts, with fraud
ulent constructions; lying oxcuscs.and
more mendacious promises. Ho is
tempted to eludo responsibility; to de
lay settlement; to provaricato upon
tho terms; to resist equity, and devise
specious fraud. When tho eager cred
itor would restrain such vagrancy by
law, tho debtor then thinks himself
released from moral obligation, and
brought to a legal game, in which it is
lawful for tho best player to win. Ho
disputes true accounts; ho studies sub
terfuges; extorts provocations delays;
nnd harbors in every nook.nnd corner,
jind passage, of tho law's labyrinth.
At length tho measuro is filled up,
nnd the malignant power of debt is
known. It has opened in tho heart
every fountnin of iniquity; it has bo
soiled the conscience; it has tarnished
tho honor; it has mndo a man a dtr
liborato student of knavery; a system
ntic practitioner of fraud; it ban
dragged him through all tho sowers of
potty passion anger, hate, rovongo,
mnliclous folly, or malignant shamo.
When a dobtor is beaten at every
point, and tho lr.w will put her screws
upon him, there Is no dopth in tho gulf
of dishonesty into which ho will not
boldly plungo. Somo men put thoir
property to tho flames, assasslnnto tho
detested creditor, and end tho frantic
tragedy by suicido or tho gallows.
Others, in view of tho catastrophe
liavo eonvcrtod all proporty to cash
nnd conccalod it. Tho law's utmost
skill and tho croditor's fury aro alike
powcrloss now tho treo is green and
thrifty; its roots driuving a copious
supply from somo hlddon fountain.
Craft has another harbor of resort
lor tho piratical crow of dishonesty;
viz.: putting ono's property out of the
law's reach by a fraudulent convey
ance. Whoovor runs in rtobt, and con
sumes tho equivalent of his indebted
ness; whoover Is fairly llablo to damage
for broken contracts; whoovor by folly
has incurred debts and lost tho benefit
of his outlay; whoover is legally
obliged to pay for his malice or care
lossness; whoovor by inlldolity to pub
lic trusts has mndo his proporty a just
remuneration for his defaults; who
over of all thoso, or whoover, under
any circumstances, puts out of his
hands proporty morally or legally due
to creditors, is a dishonest man. The
crazy excuses which men render to
their consciences, aro only such he
every villain makes who Is unwilling
to look upon the black face of his
crimes. N. Y. Ledger.
QUICKLIME
CREMATION.
A 1'iiiii'nil in (Jiiiiid Ciiiiury 'With
its At-
tiMiilmit SpiinWh Ceremony.
Slowly tho head of a funeral pro
cession appeared from tho street by
tho Bishop's palaco and bogan to glide
between tho promotmdoand thoehurch
Four laughing acolytes in seat-lot cas
socks, with crucifixes and gilded
lamps on staves enmo first. Tho priest
with his book was next, attended on
each side by a boy with a lamp to 11
lumlnnto his pages. Ho sang tho ser
vice as ho stumblod over tho uneven
etones of tho street. Tho body, under
ii pall, carried by four men, who wore
uttonded by a knot of othors for their
roliof, followed tho priest, and then in
parallel lines came tho friends and rel
atives of tho deceased with lumps
Interspersed among them to tho num
ber of about two hundred. Tho heavy
lava portal of tho comotory by tho bou
nhoro bears tho inscription: "Do not
bo doaf to tho voleo that tolls you all Is
illusion except death." Hero all the
lamps savo two wore puffed out by the
boys and most of tho mourners turned
on thoir hools and, with frosh cigars
between thoir lips, returned to tho
city. .
Ton or twolvo of
compaulcd tho chief
the gates. A man,
us, however, uo
mournors within
with a sack ol
lhno
Ids
on his shoulder and u pipe in
mouth, walking with the
arrogance of ono proud without
cjiuho preceded tho collln as It was
liftod from iron stnlrcaso to Htatreuso
until wo reached tho peculiar nicho in
tho high "columbarium" which was
to receive It. Then It was sot on the
ground, tho Hd was romoved and tho
man with tho llmo unipllou tho con
tents of his sack ovor tho deceased
-woman, methodically spreading and
pressing it until nothing was visible ol
her, except tho small, well-shod foot.
Ho kept his pipe in his mouth during
this operation. Tho chief mourner,
while minutely watching that process
attendant upon the burial of his moth
or, found llmo to light a cigarette and
chat with his friends, nnd tho two ro
jtnalning acolytes grinned and played
tricks by holding their lamps so that
1ho uuriouu shiulsws llutterod over the
dead woman and tho llmo man. At
length tho latter looked up with tin In
terrogative grunt. "Aro you satisfied,
jsouorP" 'Perfectly," replied thochlol
mourner.
Tho Hd wiih replaced, tho coffin wa
run energetically into its appointed
groove, nnd all wjih ended. Twenty
lour houin ago tho deceased wtu alive
and well; twenty-four hours hencu tdic
will bo half oroinuted. UibraUar Tim,
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local nnd General Import
Gathered from AH Sources for
the Bonoflt of Our Rouders.
Virginia City lias many idle men.
Small-pox at Merced is disappear
ing. Hedwood City complains of burg
lars. Vancouver has limited its saloons
to six.
There is a wood famine at Grass
Valley.
Burglaries aro still plentiful at Los
Angeles.
San Luis Obispo works its prisoners
in a chain-gang.
Salt Lake City ha? an ISM-pound
3-ycar-old Hereford heifer.
Crescent City, Del Norte county,
proposes to establish a pork factory.
Fheenix, A. T., has succeeded in its
efforts to securo tho Territorial capital.
Tho remains of an unknown man
were found on the tract at Bakors
ficltl. San Bernardino charges $10 a day
for circuses and $10 per day for dance
houses.
Miss Emma Holman was fearfully
injured by a neighbor's dog at Al
bany, Or.
A fatal disease has appeared among
tho horses on Dry Oreok, San Luis
Obispo county.
Salt Lake has risen three inches in
tho last CO days, after a fall last sum
mer of 2G inches.
Idaho lawmakers complain of tho
tricks bv which Mormons evade tho
laws denying them a vote.
About 50 passenger and freight con
the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad have been discarged.
Tho Gilroy Advocate intimates that
iiio rntinrted discovery of coal near
that city has been exaggerated.
trardncr applied to the
beet sugar factory at Watsonvillo for
a contract on 7U acres oi ueeic.
Tho oflioial count in Novada gives
n,.viino MlnrO for congress, 01)21
votes, una Cassidy, (Dem.) 5082.
Sauta Kosa believes it will, within a
year, bo connected by
rail with tho
western boundary lino of Sonoma.
An artesian well at Flsinor, San
rtw.im cnuntv. furnishes bath houses
with water 108 degrees tcmperaturo
A seam of bituminous coal, three
fnnt. iii width, has beon discovered in
Sun til if.it. R. C. 20 feet from tho sur
face.
Thirteen and one-half tons of bar
iiiwOpm nil A (.hell fish were scraped ofl'
tho bottom of tho Olympian at Vic
toria.
A boy tramp, aged about 13 years,
.ifi-iutl nt. the Suisun depot, was
fou ml to have two loaded rovolvers oa
his person
Tho jury in tho Teller uiurdor caso
at Spokane Fulls brought in a verdict
of not guilty. Mrs. Teller killed her
husband in self dofonso
Leading lawyers in Nevada believe
tho constitutional amendments that
woro adopted by the popular voto last
summer, aro null and void.
At an undertaker's shop in San Ber
nardino William Graham took a drink
of embalming lluid, thinumg it was
boor. He died in great agony.
Mrs. Alice C. Whilford, wife of a
Denver bankor, hus gone hopelessly
insane at Pomona on account of her
husband's complaint in a divorce suit.
Sixlv acres of land wore purchased
at Seattle for tho site of a lug snieltor
to reduce tho ores cf tho northwest,
and especially those ol tho uumr
d'Alone.
Shipments of fish from Hanford
and lHiinoore, Tulnro county, ou.oo
pounds from Soptoniber 15th to Do-
comber 1, 1S8S. Tho hsh woro taken
from Tulnro lako.
A rattlesnake three feet long with
seven rattles was found the other dny
on the roof of Iho Palaco hotol at Tuc
son, A. T. Tho building has brick
walls and is sixty foot lugii. n h sup
posed, tho reptilo whb dropped by
somo bird of proy.
It has been discovoiod tint ovor
$75,000 in coupons of the fundo.l debt,
purchasod by the city ol haeramonio,
is missing ami not canceled. Tho
eoiiDons iiio Ol lu. iv is nouevi-ii
i:i.000 of the issue now in tho books
anil canceled has boon paid twice.
A. N. Polymath, the San Diego iow
eler who was arrestee a low daya ago
for illoutiUv restraining Mr. and Mm
A. F. Tabor in his shop two or threo
hours and subjecting them to a search
to tho skin, because they refused to
nay him if 15 for threo rings alleged to
havo uoon lauon uy mum, " uwu
held to answer before the supunor
court-on a charge of falso im prison-
ment.
Sovoral companies navo been or
gauiied to dovelop the oil Holds in
Now Mexico, ami considerable excite
ment exists at Gallup, whero oil is in
such quantities that in nuuiy lacali
tiea it "runs in rivulotB."
Tho latest ndvieea from Wnhalak
Mien., Iho bceno of the raco troubloa
uro to tho effect that three moroiie
groos have boon captured, but ihero
names arc withheld. From a pris
oner just taken it in learned thut tluro
were thieo womuled in Iho tight.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
9-
A Brief Mention of Mutters of General
Interest. Notes Gathered from
Homo and Abroad.
New Cumberland, W. Va., had a
$150,000 fire Tuesday night.
Tho steamer Silver Star was sunk
near Portsmouth, Maine, last week.
A conference of wool-crowers will
be held in Washington on January 10,
Sunday trips of tho Fifth avenue,
New York, stages have been abolished.
Now i ork and Washington were
surprised Tuesday with pleasant wea
ther.
Pittsburg has tho walking mania
A 72-hour match was in progress last
week.
Canada prohibits the importation of
lnmroncr literature from the United
States.
The secret ecrvico of tho Missouri
Pacific road will cease to exist after
January 1.
The Butchers' Protective associa
tion at Cincinnati, has declared a boy
cott on Chicago dressed beef.
A heavy fall of snow in Michigan
has enabled tho lumbermen to begin
tho winter logging operations.
Two thousand people witnessed a
game of base-ball at Philadelphia last
Sundav. plavcd m-doors at the state
fair building.
Mrs. John Priestly and her grand
son were murdered last Saturday and
thon burned in an incendiary liro at
Forest City, Peun.
Tho French-Evorsoll actions in
Kentucky aro heavily armed and pre
paring for a fight. Tho French party
has 35 men, heavily armed.
Francis Murphy ha8 made 2000 to
tal abstinence men in Indianapolis.
Ilia methods appear to bo more effec
tive than tho prohibition vote.
There have been three heavy snow
slides on tho Canadian Pacilic rail
road in tho mountains during the last
few weekH, all at or near Field.
Tho owners of tho released Btoamoi
Hartian Republic, demand damages
from Hayti amounUng. to $200,000,
and tho ship's crow $15,000.
Bogardus was defeated"" in a pigon
shootmg match at Cincinnati by Al
Bandle. Tho latter killed all his
birds, 100; Bogardus killed 95.
Four woman had an 8-hour bicycle
raco at New York Tuesday night. Lot
tie Stanley made 80 miles and secured
$500 and the diamond medal.
C. J. Kershaw, who failed for two
millions in tho Cincinnati wheat cor
ner, has arranged to pay nearly 90
cents on the dollar on all tho claims.
s advance agent,
jumpod from a
swift moving train,
while .it) miles
from Cheyenne, Tttes
not killed, but badly
day. Ho was
bruised.
Since 1835, and including tho one
last week, nino explosions have oc
curred at tho powder works in Wind
ham, Maine. Altogether 33 lives have
been lost.
Indictments havo been found in
Jefferson county, Intl., against every
pilot who took out a Sunday excur
sion from that locality during the
pnst summer.
Lincoln, Neb., has a jilizen named
John McAllister, worth $30,000, who
lives alone in a small room in a state
of abject squalor. He is a monoma
niac on "logic.
Tho football team at Durnsin.N.
C, has had powerful electric lights
suspended over its grounds and pro
pose to play tho game during the
evening hereafter.
Fount Horner, aged 20, while cnuy
drunk, ran through the streets of
Charleston, W. Va., Tuesday with a
club, hitting ovorybody ho met. He
struck Edward Ames, v.'ho stabbed
him to death.
Gsneral David Stanley was arrested
recently by ordor of the mayor of Aus
tin, Tex., but tho jailor tefiisod to in
carcerate him. Tho general was exe
cuting an ordor of ejectment issued by
tho war department.
Tho model of tho monument which
is to ho orected in Hayniarket square,
Chicago, in memory of tho policemen
who foil in tho oncountor with the an
archists, has been finished, and will
bo Bent to New xork for casting.
Tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch Christ
mas fund reaehul $10,000. The sub
scriptions stai ted at 10 conts. Fully
lfi.OOU poor children received pres
ents Tuesday, anil for hours tho vicin
ity of tho exposition building wna
packed.
A riot broko out afresh at Bevtor,
Mo., the sceno of tho recent mine
troubles, last week. The negroes were
tho aggressors,. and not only did thov
grow boisterous, but attempted intimi
dation by tho free use of firearms. The
militia acted promptly, and Tuesday
night five of tho leaders were in the
guard-house.
Arkansas lias received tho honor
able mention of showing the greatest
number and best varieties of seedling
apples before the Illinois Horticultural
Society. That Btate won tho sumo
award at Now Orleans, Boston and
Kiversiee.
An odd piosont wa recoived by
Gen. Harrison Christinas from Port
land, representing a .pidor's web of
lino wire, with a spider ami a tly in it
in oloto proximity. Underneath were
tho words: "Home, Sweet Home."
Tho general was nimble to teo tho sig
nificance of the gift,
the Agriculturalist
Nowsy Notes Concerning: tho Farm
of Especial Icterost to the Pa
cific Coast Husbandman.
atd
It will be a sign of progressive farm
ing when the owner of Bwine saves
clover for his hogs in winter, or goes
further and preserves in a sile sweet
corn, with which to winter and help
his hogs. The possibilities of hog
rearing with tho right kind of ensilage
are beyond reckoning.
Never grow trees of different kinds
together until satisfied ono does not
injure the other, as is frequently tho
caso when plums aro grown near
peaches, thus inducing the curculio
to sometimes attack the latter. A
single wild cherry treo near an apple
orchard will provide a harboring
place for catorpillars, which finally in
jure tho apple orchard.
There is a time, to market produce,
and that must be regarded if success
is hoped for. It is decidedl t best to
market as much produce as possiblo
in the immediate vicity of one's home,
and to sell directly to the consumer.
In this way usually better prices aro
maintained, as there are no middle
men to get their share, and there is
also tho advantage of dealintr with peo
ple whoso standing is fairly known.
But oven if lowor prices must be taken
as a rule it is better to soil near home
than to take the risk of marketing at
a distance.
The value of the food is not in the
availablo material contained therein
for the production of meat or milk
onlv, but also in tho amount and qual
ity of manure derived therefrom. It
has been estimated that one-third of
the food eaton goes into tho manure
As the manure, then, is simply tho
food stored away for future use, it is
important that in order to drive the
greatest benefit from the food manure
should bo carefully managed to pro
vent loss. As the food is not exposed
to injury by air and water tho manure
is equally deserving of care. Tho
manure-heap is the savings bank of
tho farm.
If it is desired to havo poppies very
early, it is well to take " time by tho
forelock " and prepare the bed in tho
fall. Sprinkle the seed on tho top of
tho ground just before winter fairly
sot3 in, or it can be dono later. The
finest poppies I have ever grown were
sown during a January tuaw, while
tho bed was freo from snow for a day
or two. Poppy seeds are very tiny
an I if planted too deep will not come
up, or if not stilliciontly covered soon
dry up , but tho rains and tho melting
enow seem to regulate the mattor
nicely. Use as little seed as your con
scienco will lot you, else tho work of
thinning out will be tiresome. Poppies
should always be sown where they
are to bloom, for they are very dif
ficult to transplant.
i'eeti warm swill to vour pigs in a
warm placo. Feeil often and but lit
tle at a time, so that tho pigs will
always come to tho trough with t
good appetite, and there will be noth
ing lei t to sour, reed the swill as
fast as it is made, so that it doesn't
get sour. Try to got your litter of
pigs in March or April, that they may
bo lit for sale in eailv winter. Breed
once a year, as this is a sufficient
strain on tho vitality, and breed to
mature parents. If you breed from
too young parents you increaso the
probabilities of infirmity and disease
to which the pig is liable. Whenever
you bring a now pig on tho farm,
shut it up by itsolf for at least three
wooks, until you have ascsrtained it
to bo perfectly healthy.
Tli a pulling ot learners is a pure
habit, which is brought on in flocks
that hare not enough to occupy their
time and attention. When they onee
got a tato of the meaty end of the
feather they are liable to extend their
picking to something more than
feathorB, taking advxutage of the
linked condition of their companions
by nipping at exDosed bloody parts,
and allowing the poor henaTno peace
till tboy or their mates are' taken out
of tho pen. During the winter con
finement of fowls they should bo kept
as busy as possible by scattering their
grain among loaves and chaff, to that
hard scratching will be necessaiy on
their part in ordor to got enough to
eat. This will take their tinio and be
liablo to keep them out of mischief.
As a further prevention, somo trim
tho edges of tho beaks, so that when
they attempt to pull a feather it will
slip through and they cannot hold it.
Another remedy is to put on tho fowl
an appliance called tho poultry bit,
which can bo obtained of almost any
dealer in poultry supplies.
If any person wero to chain an ani
mal to a stake in a field and leave it to
shift for itself, then to watch tho ani
mal until it gets thin and decrepid
from loss of Uesh and strength, it in
quite probable that the humane so
ciety would bo after him with properly
deecrvud punishment. Yot this is
what thousands of farmers aro doing
with their fruit orchards, of course
barring tho difference between the in
satinU treo and living animal. Liko
tho latter tho treo ia ohaiued to one
locality and cannot go abroad for
food, but fortunately it has n sense
of suffering, or at least nono that we
can appreciato. And yot even for a
treo there must bo something akin to
pain in the process of alow starvation
tho seeking by exhausted rootlets
of food that cannot be found. It takes
an enormous amount of various ma
nures to form fruit and seods. Tho
leafy part of tho troo may mostly
come from carbonic acid gas of thw
atmosphere, but tho stone fruits need
a good deal of potash, Grapes ami
pttans inquire a considerable aim nut
of phosphate in addition. There is
perhaps, no place on tho farm where
a good dressing of manure would do
greater good than in an old applo
orchard whoro the trees seem to be
running out.
Much of the feeding of chickens is
of soft food. It is easily picked by
the little fellows, and they can quickly
fill their crops from a dab of wet meal
thrown on the ground beforo them
This too rapid eating is one of the
worst evils in artificial feeding young
chickens. They gorgchemsflves, be
come surfeited and die. Wo havo
found whole wheat grains much bet
ter, beginning for two or three days
by breaking tho grain in two pieceB,
It does not matter, however, if the lit
tle fellow is forced to do this work
himself. He will struggle with
grain of wheat or oat grain for two or
three minutes, and at last, after a des
perate struggle, swallow it. '1 ho very
hardness of the whole grain keeps his
food from compacting in his crop,
Wo would not, however, feed wholb
corns to very young chicks, nor in
deed corn ground into meal, as their
principal diet.
At present many country people
want to know how to make quickly
vinegar out of cider. Apples vary in
the amount, of sugar they contain
Some that make thin and watery ci
uer, or aro largely diluted with water,
will never mako strong vinegar unless
reinforced with more sweet. Any
coarse sugar or molasses will do, as
whatever impurities it contains must
bo thrown up to tho surface in violent
fermentation, and may bo skimmed
off. If tho cider is all right, place it
in a placo, whero some may be drawn
off and poured back every day, taking
pains to bring it into contact with tho
air as much as possible. J? or this pur
pose it is olton nltereu over coarse
shavings or straw. Tho oxygen the
air starts first tho vinous or alcoholic
fermentation, which is quickly fol
lowed by tho acid fermentation. The
more sweet there is in the cider tho
stronger tho fermentation and the
sharper the vinegar. If you have old
cider that don't turn readily into vine
gar, put it into an old molasses hogs
head or barrel, and give it another
trial. There are various methods of
keeping cider from working. If your
old cider has beon subjected to .any of
these, it is better to make or buy a
barrel of now. Tho cider that has
been doctored to keep it sweet is hard
to change into vinegar, and is not of
the best when made. Tho common
practice of putting the cider barrel in
tho coldest corner of the cellar, and
then lotting it work itself into vinegar
without help, is not ono to be gener
ally reoommonded.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writes from California how
he saves and cures peaches in the sun.
He says neaely all evaporators are
abandoned and the rays of the sun
are depended on and answer as grod a
purpose as the best system of artificial
heat. lie. goes on at length to sy how
the fruit is gathered, peaches being
.his cwn crop, that it is bleached by
use of sulphur fumes half an hour,
and the sun dries lartre fruit that is in
halves in three days' time. California
evidently has a great advantage in its
warm sun and dry climate, but whilo
they depend on tho sun's rays only,
they havo not any decided advant
ages over the evaporating machines
now in xogue m Oregon. They do all
the work of preparation and laying on
trays, and while they place these trays
in tho sun the evaporating concerns
hold them mere conveniently and the
cost of wood is small. The cost of
handling is ttie same in either case.
There was a short timo last summer
when sun drying was efficient, but
not to be depended on. The sun in
August can be utilized hore in con
nection with evaporating by heat.
Last summer when peach plums
were tnreatcning to spoil because
there was not evaporating space to
hold them, the expedient wag resorted
to of spreading tho fruit cut and pitt
ed upon boards and partially drying
it thus. It was found to be an ad
vantage's the fruit partially sun-dried
was even bettor than that put at first
into tho evaporator. If we havo a
good sun it can be utilized to dry fruit
and it can bo bleached as well bofore
sun-drysng as when dried in an evap
orator.
In making calculations for any in
vestment, it is tlways well to con
sider both sides carefully tho proba
ble cost and tho probablo returns tho
investment will yield. If by one
niothod of proceduro it costs live
cents per pound, and tho price of
beef gives promise of fluctuating bo
tweon -fj and 5J cents per pound, the
investment is not a promising one.
Again, if it costs $100 to raiso a com
mon horso in a common way to the
ago oi iotir years, ami mere is no
promiso of more than $125 for him,
whilo it costs $11'5 to raise a line draft
colt to tho ago of threo years, and
such colts roadily sell at $175, it is not
lard to seo winch investment gives
the greatest promiso of profit. In this
question of rolativo profit, tho Farm
ers' Advance gives tho following inter
esting incident: A gas company hav
ing a quantity of pipe to bo hauled
somo distance offered what they sup
posed fair rates by the hundred
pounds for the work. Light teams,
or what many call general-purpose
teams, could draw an averago of 2,200
pounds, earning $3.30, which, after
deducting $1.50 per day for driver and
his board, loft $1.80 for use of team,
wagon and harness. Any ono will
say that tho team would bo fed at a
loss. Partios having heavy teams of
grado draft horses took tho contract
at tho com jinny's rates, and drew on
an average of 3,800 pounds, earning
$5.70 per deducting $1.50 for drivor
and his board, leaves $1.20 for team,
wagon ami harness. This is a differ
ence of f 2.10 in faxor of tho draft
team.
PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1
The stato of the mercantile market ha
remained unchanged throtiKUot the past
week, wheat being alone affected.
Cable advlcos from Liverpool do not give
promise of a change for the better until
after tho Christmas holidays. The retail
holiday trade is very active, ready money
being more plentiful than usual at this
time of the year.
G ItOCEIU ES Sugars have fallen Jc
since our last report. We quote C t$c,.
extra C PJc. dry granulated 7Jc, cube,
crushed and powdered "Sc. Colt'ofs firm,
.Tava'icc, Costa Rica life's 20c, Salvador
18ll)c, Arbucklo'a roasted 2Uc. In
canned table fruit, assorted, 21s 2 per
doz: pie fruit, assorted, 2i 1.2Jvfil.33.
8s ?!.75.
PROVISIONS Oregon hams are qnot
edat 14jlfc, breakfast bacon 14c, shoul
ders lOic, Eastern meat Is qnoted as fol
lows: Hams 13fel0c, breakfast bicon 13lc
sides llc.
FRUITS-Green fruit receipts 125U bss.
Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap
ples not equn! to the demand. Apples 6(K2
05 per bx, Mexican oranges 4, lemons
80(5,0.50 per bx, bananas $J3.50S4,50,.
quinces 10 a 00c,
VEGKTABLKS Market well supp'IecL
Cabbage J lc per It), carrots nnd turnip
75c per sack, red pepper 3c per lb, potatous
40450 per Rack, sweet lljtgtfc per lb.
DRIED FRUITS-ReceiptH 409 pkges-Sun-dried
apoles 4fa5c per lb, factory
slic"d 8c, factory plums 80c, Oregon,
prune 7($0c, pears 0 adOc, peachc lOfiillc,
raliln8l2.25 per box, Call ornla figs 8c,.
Smyrna 18c per lb.
DAIRY PRODUCE Butter receipts for
tho week 151) pkges. Fancy creamery 32jc
per lb, choice dairy Sc, medium i730c
common 20c, eastern 2o(kj30c.
EGGS Receipts 1W2 cases. Oregon 35c,
eastern 32fe32Jc.
POULTRY Chickens 3.50:31, for
largo youiiR aud $1 4 .-0 for old, turkeys
12J'ai3Jc per lb, ducks ?57 per dozen,,
geese 8 'S.il.
WOOL-Receipt for week 221.800 lbs.
Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon 10al5c.
HOPS-Reeeipts for week 1027 lbs.
Choice 12J(a14c.
GRAIN Receipts ffor week 04,200 ctls.
Valley 81.374(3)1.10. Eastern Oregon 81.32J,
(gl.40. Oats 32g)3.r)c.
Ff.OUR-Recclpts for week 5070 bbls
Standard 34,75, otlier brands 81.25.
FEED Barley 823 per ton. mill do
$1818.50, shorts 810 50, brau815.50,
baled hay $1315, loo5e 1215.
FRKSII MEATS Beef, live, 3c. dressed
0c, mutton, live, 3c, dressed 0i, lambs
K2.25 each, hogs, live, 5J(c0c, dressed 7
7J, veal OTc
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Masculine breach of promiso casoa
will never succeed until thore are fe
male juries. Baltimore American.
Irascible wife to husband: "You
aro no match for mo, sir." Husband
(weakly): "If lam not, my dear, why
do you always want to scratch mo?"
Washington Critic.
Hosides preventing consumption,
tho boiling of milk is important other
wise. It reduces tho amount of water
that has beon pumped into tho milk
cans. Louisville Courier-Journal.
When you know all about a thing
it loses all intorost. It is tho imagina
tion playing upon a suspicion that gives
it thoso beautiful colors which gossip
delights in. San Francisco Chronicle.
A man will dislocato his arm trying
to hit a base-ball, and spend an eutiro
day in debilitating efforts to make a
homo run but he won't boat a carpet.
Not much. Merchant Traveler.
When a foreign prince comos of
ago he generally rocoivos many
presents of jowolry. This is as it should
bo, for about tho only thing that a
foreign prince over does to distinguish
himself is coming of age. Jeweler's
Weekly.
"I see," said Mr. Bark'.ns, "that
there are a million moro women than
men in Germany." "Yes," said Mr.
Smtirty; "they do that to evade tho
military requirements of tho Gorman
Government. " Harper's Bazar.
A white woman in Columbia, S. C.r
who was charged with hot- colored
husband with violating the law against
miscegenation, sworo that she had
negro blood in her veins and secured a
disagreement of tho jury.
Irresolution on tho schemes of life
which offer themselves to our choice,
and inconstancy in pursuing them, are
the greatest causes of all our unhappi-
ness. Addison.
A man does not compliment you
when ho gives you somo slanderous,
disagreeable information and says: "I
thought you would liko to know it."
jr. Y. J'icavunc.
For tho boat results there needs be-
tho longest waiting Tho true harvest
is tho longest in being reached. Iiio
failures come first, tho success last.
The unsatisfactory is gonorally soonest
t-een.
It is a great thing to know that
thoro is a Power and Wisdom which
guides us and tho world; and to feol
that thoro Is a Justico immense, im
measurable, irroslbtnblo, which swuys
tho ocean of human forces. 'iheodore
l'urktr.
Virtue and talents, though allowed
their duo consideration, yst are not
onough to procuro a man r. weleoino
wherever ho comes. Nobody contents
himself with rough diamonds, or wears
them so. When polished und sot, then
they give a lustro. Locke.
So far as wo havo tho opportunity
of shaping our llvos, so far wo aro re
sponsible for their forms. Our lives
are Inlluenced by circumstances; but
wo have tho opportunity of making cir
cumstances. If wo mako thoso circum
etances evil wo aro responslblo for tho
sin which results.
It Is a good idea that tho country
hotels have adopted of furnishing
thoir guests with both kerosene lamps
and candles. Tho korosono lamps are
very useful in helping you to soo the
light that tho candles give. Somcr
vilU Journal.
A lato song U ontltled "Nobody
Vnows but mother." Gonorally speak
ing, nobody knows but mother what
kind of a tomper a daughtor htu, but
after the hunuyinoou Is over, tha
young hiubunil begins to find out
bOinoUilii of what mother luww.-.